Improvement in buttons



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PIERRE EUGENE RICHARDIERE,` oF PARIS, FRANCE.

IMPROVEMENT lN BUTTONS.

Specification forming,r part of Letters Patent No. 37,774, dated February 24, 1&63.

.To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, PIERRE EUGENE RIGH- ARDIRE, of Paris, in the Empire ot' France, have invented a new and Improved Button; and l do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ot' the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a face View of the button. Fig. 2 is a central section of the same, showing the manner in which it is attached to a piece of clot-h. Fig. 3 is a back view ofthe same.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspending parts in the several figures.

rlhis invention consists in a button having formed in its interior one or more bars or partitions, over which the thread by which it is attached to a garment or other article passes without being exposed on'thc front of the button. This button may be made of porcelain, horn, indiarubber, or any material which is plastic under some conditions and capable of being molded or stamped; or it might be made of metal in one piece, or of two or more pieces soldered together or otherwise secured.

The example of my invention represented in Figs. l, 2, anda?, is of simpleilenticularform, without any shank or protuberance oni-ts back, and has the internal bar or partition, a., which constitutes the principal feature ot my invention, formed by punching two holes, c o', 0b-

liquel y from opposite sides of the center of the back in such manner as to meet each other, and punching a third hole, b, iu the center of the face to meet the said holes c c".

-To attach this button, one end ot' the thread e is tirst attached to the piece of cloth or other material, d, and then by means of a needle passed through one ofthe holes c of-suppose c, foreXample-and through thehole b, then back through the holes b and c and through thev cloth, causing the thread to ride upon the bar or partition a. This operation is repeated as many times as may be desirable, according to the streng-th of attachment required.

Instead of only two holes, c c', there may be three, four, or more holes in the back ofthe button, all comnuinicatiug` with the central hole, b, in the front, in such manner as to form two, three, er more bars or partitions.

What 1 claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isf A button having formed in its interior one or more bars or partitions, over which the thread passes, substantially as herein described, to secure it to the cloth or other material without being exposed' on the face of the button.

P. E. RICHARDIRE.

Witnesses: l

JAMES W. BRooKs, E. SHERMAN G-oULD. 

